Dave Coulier’s house just got a whole lot fuller! 

The Full House star and comedian announced in a recent Parade interview that he has officially become a proud grandfather for the first time after his son Luc and his wife Alex welcomed their first child together, a baby boy, on March 27.  

“We’re so excited,” Coulier told the outlet. “My son and his wife live in California, so we’ll be making multiple trips to see that little boy.”

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The 65-year-old actor, who revealed he’d been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma last November, credited his grandson with helping him maintain a positive outlook amid his ongoing cancer battle. 

“I don’t know how else to view this other than with a positive attitude, especially because I’m in a position where I can inspire others,” he shares. “A negative attitude doesn’t inspire anybody. Positivity, though, can take you a long way.” 

Coulier — who starred as lovable Uncle Joey on the beloved ABC sitcom and its recent Netflix spinoff, Fuller House — previously revealed that he learned of his cancer diagnosis after an upper respiratory infection caused his lymph nodes to swell to the size of golf balls. His doctors then made him undergo tests to determine the cause of the symptoms. 

“Three days later, my doctors called me back and they said, ‘We wish we had better news for you, but you have non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and it’s called B cell and it’s very aggressive.’ I went from, I got a little bit of a head cold to I have cancer, and it was pretty overwhelming,” he told PEOPLE. “This has been a really fast roller coaster ride of a journey.”

His Full House family has banded together to support him amid his health journey following his diagnosis, with John Stamos sporting a bald cap in solidarity and Candace Cameron Bure noting that she checks in on him often.  

“That’s the most really anyone can do. And you tell people how much you love them, that’s what friends are for,” Bure told PEOPLE in February. “You’re just there for people, whether it’s to be a listening ear or give words of comfort and encouragement.”